At the 2018 PAR Annual Meeting, held on Monday, October 22, during the 2018 PAR SolutionsConference, Nominating Committee Chair Rob Reid announced the nomination of Gwen Schuit, CEO of Friendship Community, and Jeanne Meikrantz, Executive Director of The Arc of Chester County, to the PAR Board of Directors. The membership seconded the motion to approve the2019 Board of Directorsand the motion carried. View the 2019 PAR Board of Directorshere!

PAR President and CEO Shirley Walker announced the appointment of Mark Davis as PAR's new President and CEO effective January 1, 2019. Read the press releasehere.

Pennsylvania Auditor General Eugene DePasquale addressed the 2018 PAR SolutionsConference, saying "Each you know better than the average Pennsylvania how tough the work is...For our direct care workers, if you’re not going to pay them enough, they’re going to find another job, because this is really really hard. And I don’t mean whether you’re going to pay them, but whether through Medicaid and Medicare we’re going to pay them an adequate wage.At the end of the day, we have to do a better job of paying the people that are doing this very hard work."